When was the sport of badminton first played? These early paintings, including William Blake’s ‘The Fly’, look promising but show a children’s game instead.
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From their genre roots in the Dutch Golden Age, through GĂ©ricault and Courbet, to the social realism of Millet, Manet, and most of all Lhermitte.
Why do Canaletto’s gondolas not have shadows? Where did CĂ©zanne get his shadows wrong, and why, and what colour are shadows really?
The majority of portraits and genre paintings of women washing clothes are thoroughly demur, without the slightest innuendo.
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